Werner Greuter

Professor Dr. Werner Rodolfo Greuter, (born February 27, 1938) in Genova, Italy, as a Swiss national, is a prominent botanist. He is well-known as the chair of the Editorial Committee for the "International Code of Botanical Nomenclature" ("ICBN") - both the previous "St Louis Code" (2000), and "Tokyo Code" (1994), but not the current "Vienna Code" (2006). His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he merely completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005.

Biography

Prof. Greuter went to schools in Bellinzona and Winterthur, and received his PhD from the University of Zürich in 1972.

He was appointed on April 1, 1978 to his current position: Professor of biology in the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and First Director of the University's Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) in Berlin.

Awards

* OPTIMA Gold Medal, 1998.
* Distinguished Services Award, XVI International Botanical Congress, St Louis, Missouri
* Theophrastus Medal of Honour of the Hellenic Botanical Society, 2000
* Honorary Professorship (Categoría Docente Especial de Profesor Invitado), Universidad de La Habana, 2004

ee also

* binomial nomenclature
* List of botanists by author abbreviation

References and external links

* [http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/staff/wiss/Greuter/default.htm Prof. Greuter's page] on the The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM) [http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/overview.htm web site]
* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/taxon.pl?104195 Example of a combination published by Greuter: "Dittrichia viscosa" (L.) Greuter]